μελῳδ-ία · melōid-ia — LSJ
singing, chanting
singing, chanting, E. Rh. 923, etc.
II chant, choral song, lullaby, music
chant, choral song, μελῳδίας ποιητής Pl. Lg. 935e, cf. 812d; lullaby, ib. 790e: generally, music, Phld. Mus. p.12 K.
The corpus record
μελῳδ-ία
melodia · ἡ
singing, chanting
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Where it lives
- Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
- Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
- Laws 4 · 0.39/10k
- Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- μελῳδίας · melōidias Aristotle, Politics 1339b (DIORISIS sentence 3067)
- μελῳδίας · melōidias Euripides, Rhesus 1 (DIORISIS sentence 591)
- μελῳδίας · melōidias Plato, Laws 936
- μελῳδίαν · melōidian Plato, Laws 790
- μελῳδίας · melōidias Plato, Laws 798
- μελῳδίαν · melōidian Plato, Laws 812
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Where it came from
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